--- On Tue, 11/11/08, Stephen Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] It`s official - an actual calsign...
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
> America" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 7:39 PM
> Colin,
>
> On Tuesday 11 November 2008 02:14:37 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Just thought I would let the group know...
> >
> > My wife just gave me a High-Five... after I checked
> the website...
> >
> > VA7WWV is on the air!
>
> Great call. I have a T-shirt that says:
>
> WWV
> We're all Time
> All the time
>
>
>
> BTW Code doesn't suck. The way it is taught might.
> If you learned to talk
> you can copy code. If, for instance, I say the word
> "Beer" you don't count
> the letters and spell it out to figure out what I meant.
> You just know that
> they sound I made means a delicious dark brown liquid.
> However if I instead
> said "to to too to" instead of listening to the
> sound everyone counts the
> dits and dahs. Thats hard work, and after about 10 you
> can't count that
> fast.
>
> If I ask most folks to learn 26 new vocabulary words in a
> week and be able to
> recognise them when spoken, people would have no trouble.
> But if I called it
> a code and tried to teach you to spell out each letter of
> every word you
> would hate it.
> Enough about that.
>
> Great job Colin. And don't worry about being giddy
> about radios. My motto is
> that you can't have too many radios.
>
> cu in the pileups.
> Steve NG0G
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I've been a ham now for over 33 years - never operated CW, never wanted to. But
code had, and has a place. However it also is largely outdated, and regardless
of the validity of Steve's comment above, the mandatory code requirements as
they were previously rightly or wrongly discouraged a lot of very tech-savvy
potential hams who for one reason or another struggled with code.
I felt lucky to make it up to 8 or 10 wpm, which is where I maxed out. You have
to deal with code in such a way that it becomes automatic and that you're
dealing with it entirely by sound and association - not at all unlike
languages. I struggled badly with languages in high school and had the same
problems with code - I never got to be able to think in the other languages,
and as with the code, I was always in a mechanical mental translation mode
which just takes way too much time. I've known others who've had similar
experiences, and wouldn't try to dispute that being taught these things
differently might have led to different results.
Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
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